I am a Behavioral Economist who combines theoretical and empirical methodologies, as well as laboratory and field experiments to understand economic decision making and how it is affected by the design of proper incentive schemes which take into account the complex array of behavioral traits behind human motivation.
I am Associate Professor of Behavioral Economics at ESADE Business School, Ramón Llull University (Barcelona, Spain). At ESADE we have a strong behavioral group working under the umbrellas of the ESADE Decision Lab and the Institute for Data-Driven Decisions. I am also de the director of the Policy Impact Lab, part of the Centre for Economic Policy & Political Economy (ESADE EcPol), pushing for policy evaluation, public data availability and experimentation to conduct research. I have also been recently appointed as affiliated researcher of J-PAL Poverty Action Lab.
I have published my work in leading academic journals in economics such as The Journal of European Economic Association, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Economic Journal, European Economic Review and The Journal of Public Economics as well as in the leading field journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Experimental Economics. My work has regularly appeared in popular media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. I am also a regular contributor to the popular Economics blog Nada es Gratis, where I served as editor (2015-2019) and as President of the Association (2017 to 2019). I am also a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, NPJ Digital Medicine (Nature), Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics, SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association and Economía Industrial.
Most of my work implies collaborating with public and private institutions in the application of behavioral insights to optimal organizational design. Please take a look at my Consulting page for a sample of companies for which I have designed Randomized Control Trails (RCTs), implemented organizational changes and incentives schemes, and conducted executive education workshops.
Finally, I am an Honorary Member of Asociación Española de Economía, where I was an elected member of its board (2017-2020) and served as President of its Education Committee. Since 2018 I have been a member of the Education Committee of the European Economic Association. I have also recently ended my 5 year tenure as member of the Economics Evaluation Committee at Agencia Estatal de Investigación.
